The GSA announced this week that trials of workstation lighting controls and advanced power strips dramatically reduced electricity use in federal buildings.
Obviously designed for the workstation crowd, this CAD destroying GPU is equipped with more GDDR5 memory than our own four-year old Quake III server, but as HotHardware points out, the clock speed remains exactly the same as the entirely more affordable V8700.
Given that the enterprises have demonstrated the willingness to spend on upgrading their workstation equipment, it is likely that this could have driven growth in professional GPU shipments in Q3 2011.